report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "special report" online starts right now. >> shepard: this is the fox report. tonight, new information and multiple red flags raised about one of the boston bombing suspects. how he ended up on the government's radar two years ago. plus, the feds in russia grilling the suspect's parents. the suspect's father tells fox news both parents are planning a trip to the united states and they both insist their sons are innocent. >> somebody else did this, and my sons were blamed for it. >> he was counseled by the fbi for like three to five years. >> shepard: now we are learning cops could arrest the mother if she steps foot on u.s. soil. plus, the older brother apparently went shopping for some serious fire power.

>> came in, asked what the biggest loudest thing you have. >> shepard: tonight, the connection to the botched times square bombing. [bagpipes] >> final salute. >> may god protect all of you first responders as you protect us. >> shepard: to the mit police officer who was born to be a cop. >> officer sean collier, we love you. >> shepard: first from fox this wednesday night, the russians asked the cia to check out one of the boston marathon's bombing suspects after asking the fbi to do the same thing. that's what a u.s. intelligence official is telling fox news today the fbi reports its investigation of the older brother found no ties to terrorism. they asked the russians for more information but they never got it the older brother was the dominant force in the plot. police say he died in a shootout last week and the younger brother is still in a hospital in boston. catherine herridge fox top

story live from d.c. tonight. catherine, what more are we learning about the request to the cia? >> shep, a u.s. intelligence official confirms to fox news that the cia was contacted by the russian counterparts in september 2011 and presented with virtually the same information the fbi was given six months earlier, that the russians believed that tamerlan tsarnaev was a radical islam and wanted to join group. the cia review like the fbi's found no evidence of terrorist activity emphasizing two years ago. fox news told at the cia's request tamerlan's name, two possible dates of birth and variant of his name were entered into a government database known suspected terrorist. the fbi briefed lawmakers that a misspin of tamerlan's name never knew he left for russia for six months. u.s. intelligence official insists that the database information was entered correctly, shep. >> shepard: new information on the two bombs? >> there is. a new intelligence bulletin

review by fox news concludes based on new forensic analysis that the boston bombs most are likely relied on component from remote controlled toy cars for the detonation. the fbi and homeland security bulletin to local state and federal law enforcement reads, in part: each device likely incorporated an electric fusing system using components from remote controlled toy cars such as a transmitter and receiver pair. electric speed controller used as switch mechanism. asked mike mccaul who is regularly briefed on the investigation to explain what catches his attention. >> this transmitter that was used out of a toy car, that is a very sophisticated pressure cooker bomb that you don't see every day. and so i personally, my judgment is they had training performed by either an individual or individuals who are still at large. >> the bulletin also describing explosive blend consistent with fireworks,ship.

>> shepard: catherine, thanks. fox news has confirmed that the older brother bought fireworks back in february at a store in new hampshire. this afternoon on "studio b," the store manager told meet suspect didn't seem suspicious at all, but he did have a specific request. >> he asked for the loudest and most powerful fireworks. that is something -- that's a question that is asked by a large majority of our customers. they want to get the biggest bang for their buck. >> shepard: she says he was not overly friendly or rude just an average customer. "the fox report" correspondent jonathan hunt is is live in our new york newsroom. do we know whether certainty these fireworks were used in the bombs. >> we don't know with any definite nature, yet shep whether she's fireworks were used in the bombs much the vice president of phantom fireworks, the patient company based in ohio says he believes it is is unlikely. listen. >> i just don't think they would have been able to mine enough powder from these products to produce that the other part is that we all saw the explosion and it was gray smoke.

you saw no color. no fireworks effect. no whistle, no crackle. >> what we do know for sure is that tamerlan drove across the fireworks in february and bought two kits called locked and loaded. he also signed up for loyalty card and used his massachusetts driver's license to do that. now, catherine herridge was just reporting we also know, shep, that the fbi has said that in their view the explosives used in the boston bombs were consistent with the explosives used in some fireworks. >> shepard: we know that terrorists in the past have used fireworks in bombs. >> yes. remember, of course, fiesel shahzad. he is the guy who tried to set off a car bomb in times square, new york back in may 2000 10. he used explosives from fireworks, then that bomb, of course, did not detonate. we also know, of course, that al qaeda has published

instructions online for bomb making which include the use of explosives from fireworks. those same instructions also recommended the use of pressure cookers, of course, being used in the boston attacks, shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt from new york. the store manager says the suspected bomber spent a few hundred dollars on fireworks. now the state of massachusetts is reporting he was getting welfare benefits until last year. officials say both brothers received benefits as children through their parents but police have not said how they believe the suspects paid for the attack. the state reports neither brother was getting benefits at the time of the bombing. one of the big unanswered questions in all of this is what the suspects would have done next had police been unable to stop them. as it turns out, they may have been heading to new york. >> there was some incident inatincident immigration that they may have

-- incident immigration that they may have been come to yrk. reportedly told police he heard them speaking about manhattan. despite all the evidence against them. despite all the evidence investigators claim to have thousands of people are now expressing support for the suspects in the boston marathon attack. more than 15,000 people have joined this guy's facebook group which accuses the authorities of setting up the younger brother. thousands more have signed a white house petition claiming investigators have wrongfully accused the wrong men. looking whether online feud senator roger wicker and another local attorney or i should say judge. the feds dropped their charges against the impersonator. i thought they said rice, i don't even eat rice. he said he would come to belows with online at least another man north

mississippi one time candidate for the state house of representatives. well, today, teams searched through a retail space where neighbors said that second man once owned a martial arts studio. that was one day after the fbi searched his house. he didn't send any of those poison letters, for now the fbi has not charged him with any crime. there is a new warning now. bird flu and it's serious. the experts say it's one of the most lethal forms they have ever seen. they tell us the virus is on the move. we'll get details from atlanta. plus, the feds say budget cuts that sidelined thousands of air traffic controllers this week are not effecting airline safety. and one official claims the hundreds and hundreds of flight delays haven't actually been so bad. meantime, the blame game continues in d.c. with passengers caught right in the middle. part of your world tonight from the journalists of fox news on a wednesday fox report.

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of infections which are two or three infected members of the same household. the same family members. and these cases. sometimes difficult to know whether one human in the one human or both acquired it from a bird they were exposed to. >> racing to find a vaccine. new troubling virus cdc developing resistance to tamiflu and ralenza. we have a real witches brew. no vaccine at this point and the idea it could become resistant to our best drugs which is why the centers for disease control is so worried about this and watching it so closely, shep? >> shepard: john, scientists say the bird threw is deadlier for humans than other types of flu. spanish pandemic killed 50 million people. one out of 50 patients died. while this new strain of bird flu is killing one of every five patients it

infects. well, don't worry if your next flight is hours late. it could have been worse. that's the message from federal aviation officials talking about budget cuts that d.c. types call the sequester. those cuts have forced huge staffing cutbacks at the nation's airports and today congress grilled ahead of the federal aviation administration. he told lawmakers that delays haven't been as bad as expected. still officials say more than 1,000 flights were late yesterday alone. in fact, at one point this week it was faster to go from washington to new york city by train. mike emanuel with the news on capitol hill. what happened at this hearing? >> well, shep, there were a few fireworks. $637 million in cuts to federal aviation were expected. some lawmakers complained that the faa did not say how all of this would be implemented until last week. >> we have been talking about reduction in available controller hours of 10 pierce for months. >> you didn't tell them which airports, which airlines? >> we told them that they should expect significant impacts at major hub

facilities. >> well, lat at this da. everyone new that. >> now w. now the f.a.a. saying more than 125,000 flight delays yesterday alone were attributed to staff reductions due to furloughs, lawmakers are likely feeling pressure from unhappy constituents. among the suggestions today, targeting the furloughs to less busy airports but the f.a.a. says it cannot pick winners and losers, it's also been suggested it could cut less important parts of the agency's budget which the white house says is not correct. >> the law does not allow for the kind of flexibility when it comes to the f. auburn hills budget that some of these members, republicans principally, all claim it has. they should read the law. they wrote it, they should know what's in it. >> there are a number of questions about whether safety would be affected due to the furloughs. the f.a.a. administrator says several times there are no worries about safety. just efficiency. shep? >> shepard: mike, thanks. a new internet sales tax is a step closer to reality.

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may now know what triggered the false tweet that sent the markets in a tail spin yesterday. the associated press reports it was the victim of a phishing attempt with a p-h. somebody sends out email or some kind of message directing a victim to log ton a web site that may look like facebook or twitter. the attacker steals the victim's password and more identity theft could soon follow. the a.p. reports soon after yesterday's phishing attack the twitter account sent out the false tweet about the white house that caused the markets to plummet. wiping out an estimated $136 billion is the s&p index's value in moments. stocks, of course, quickly recovered after the a.p. announced that they had been hacked. adam shapiro from the fox business network is with us. we have seen this kind of market plunge before. >> we have the flash crash back in 2010 in may. what happens is you get some kind of trigger event like we saw yesterday with twitter. and then the computers that take over in so much of the trading begin to sell very quickly.

this is what high frequency trading is all about. it has to do with computers. they order the sales before any human being can say wait a second. nothing has happened here. and you wipe out, shep, as you said, hundreds of billions of dollars. high frequency trading, there is no official of who does high frequency trading. most broke crages have computer initiated trading. have you people like the mr. markey wrote a letter to the sec saying not too long ago i believe high frequency trading is a clear and present danger to the stability and safety of our markets and that its use should be curtailed immediately. nobody on wall street thinks high frequency trading is going to go away any time soon but a lot of attention to what we refer to as hft because these computers are in control. they have trade at 1 million of a second. they are faster than we think. >> shepard: a lot faster than i think. adam, thank you. we reached out to twitter. a spokesman says the company does not comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons. earlier today the a.p.

tweeted the a.p. twitter account suspended after being hacked has been secured and is back up. thank you for your patience. no sudden drops in the market today but no huge gains either. the dow slipped amid a paver weak economic reports from major companies including at&t plus proctor and gamble, the maker of tide, gillette and other household products off 23. the nasdaq and s&p basically flat. new high tech version of the $100 bill will start circuit late in the fall again. original design 3-d security ribbon and disappearing liberty bell meant to prevent counterfeiting. the bill had been schedule ford release two years ago. officials said they needed more time to fix some issues that left creases on the money. so a new $100 bill on your way. rhode island is on its way to approving same sex marriage and delaware could be close behind. rhode island senate today easily passed the legislation. it now goes back to procedural vote in the house which passed in

january. anyway, delaware's house approved a similar bill just yesterday which now moves on to the senate there. if both states pass the bill, gay marriage would then be legal in 11 states. and here you can see the states which along with d.c. currently allow it several other states, including delaware, rhode island, now offer civil unions to same sex couples. updating fox top story and the mother of the two boston bombing suspects says her sons are the victims of an elaborate frame job. why she says somebody targeted them next. we'll hear from her. plus, very different take on those two suspects. twisted, perverted, knockoff jihadists. those words from the vice president as boston buries another of its dead. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. ♪ [ male announcer ] the distances aren't getting shorter. ♪ the trucks are going farther. the 2013 ram 1500

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>> shepard: five people are dead as fox reports tonight and 6-year-old in the hospital after somebody opened fire in a home in a small illinois town. it happened this morning in manchester about an hour and a half north of st. louis where state police say a few hours later they captured a suspect after a car chase and a shootout. they say he was wounded and died at the hospital. we have a photo of the suspect here. turns out he is the manchester's mayor's the mayor says he hadn't spoken with him in two years but that he thinks he was unemployed. a suspected road rage case caught on camera as a car slams into a bicyclist in beverly hills. police just released the

video which is from a few weeks ago they tell us. they say the driver of this white car followed the bicyclist into an alley way. can you see the vehicle pull into what looks like a driveway and turn around here and then just plow head on right into the guy on the bicycle. see that. the cyclist reportedly told investigators he and the driver had been in an argument earlier in the day and that he had punched that driver in the face. the cyclist says the driver threatened to kill him and followed him into that alley. cops are still searching for the driver. an elevator car fell right on top of a worker today and killed him. it happened in a conned bow building at the trade winds island resort in saint pete's beach south and west of tampa. according to the sheriff's office, that worker had been cleaning oil from the elevator shaft before the car crushed him. one local television station reports inspectors had just examined that elevator two days ago. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. and the parents of the

boston marathon suspect say their sons were framed. the mother claims somebody targeted her sons because they are muslim and denies that her older, now dead son was radicalized. u.s. investigators report they have traveled to southern russia where they have been in touch with the parents of tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. the father tells russian state media they plan to fly tomorrow to the united states where one of their sons is dead after a shootout with police and the other is recovering in a hospital facing charges that could result in the death penalty if a jury convicts him. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with more on this. trace, i understand you spoke with that father today. what did he have to say? >> the father is having a very tough time, shep, accepting what the fbi telling him. the interview with the fbi was, quote, calm and normal. he says as a lawyer in russia, heys got a lot of questions that are not being answered and the answers he is getting clearly he does not like. for example, not only does he believe his sons were set up, he doesn't believe

his oldest son tamerlan was killed during that shootout with police. listen. >> i know it 100% my son was alive on the video. we saw it with our own eyes. he was arrested. there is video of the arrest. he was undressed and put in the car and drove away. when they say that my son was shot, and he was lying in the road, that is completely not true. he was calmly arrested. that's all. >> clearly the pictures tell a different story there are some reports that mosques in boston are refusing to take tamerlan's body, shep. we have not confirmed those. we have confirmed the body has not been claimed and the parents say they would like to take it back to russia for burial. >> shepard: all right, trace. the lawyers defending the bombing suspect have a lot to deal with here. where are we going? how about over there? sorry. >> well, go ahead, trace. sorry. >> the mother of the suspect, the mother of dzhokhar and tamerlan, she

is supposed to come to the united states. she is wanted in this country on a charge of shoplifting for allegedly stealing some $1,600 in clothing from a lord and taylor store. her court date was back in october. she clearly skipped it she also believes her sons were framed and she thinks the fbi took away her youngest son's voice so that he wouldn't tell the truth. she says she is the one who tolder older son to embrace islam to get away from cigarettes and booze and womanizing. and she says the fbi has been watching him for years. listen. >> he was controlled by fbi like for five years, three, five years. they knew what my son was doing. they knew what actions and what the sites internet he was going. they used to come and talk to me. they used to tell me that, you know, they had controlling him. >> the parents say they are

planning to hold a news conference tomorrow, shep. quite possibly here in the united states. >> shepard: all right. trace gallagher. thank you very much. the lawyers defending the bombing suspect are dealing with a very complicated criminal case as well as federal budget cuts coming from d.c. as the lawyers start to work on this case we're hearing each will be forced to take three weeks off unpaid leaf. by the way the veteran public defender president will be the same person who represented the so-called shoe bomber, this guy richard reid a decade ago. right now richard reid is locked up in super max security prison serving out his life sentence. president joe biden giving a scathing description of the bombing suspects. >> you twisted, perverted, cowardly knock off jihadis here in boston, why do they do what they do? >> shepard: he concluded fear is the reason they do what they do. the vice president spoke in a memorial service for the mit campus officer whom investigators say those suspects murdered last week. eric shawn live in boston. eric, an emotional service.

>> that it was, shepard, there were tears. usually stoke men dressed in police uniforms. to students and t-shirts and sneakers. you know sean collier was only 27 years old. his family said he wanted to be a cop since he was 7. and the mit athletic field was packed with thousands of students, faculty members and police officers from across the country paying tribute. he was remembered as someone who was popular and dedicated. one of his brothers rob said sean lived by the values of respect, support, and caring. and taught him to always smile at a stranger. >> people have asked me if sean were here what would he think? are you kidding me? he would have loved this. sirens, flashing lights. formations, people saluting, bagpipes. taps, the american flag. he would have loved it. >> and mit students and

members of the cambridge community have created their own makeshift sidewalk memorial at the campus that is filled as you can see with flowers, notes, and flags. they even give you chalk if you want to write a message. one person wrote a message simply in the heart the words said it all, sean, we love you. shepard? >> shepard: eric shawn from boston tonight. boylston street there got back to business today nine days after the attack. city crews scrubbed the area of most of the evidence, they tell us and construction workers poured a fresh layer of cement over the sidewalk where one of the bombs exploded. one man who works nearby told the associated press that it will be a while before there is any sense of normalcy there. well, now to that alleged terrorist plot to attack a bridge over which a train runs between new york city and toronto. one the suspects today challenged the canadian court's authority. the suspect is representing himself. he told the court he doesn't need a court appointed lawyer. he told the judge, in fact, criminal code is not a holy book.

the judge told him to save that for another court. the suspect then went on to deny the charges against him. investigators say that suspect and another man, planned to below blow up the railroad bridge just as a train traveling between toronto and new york crossed. prosecutors say the men support -- have support from members of al qaeda group in iran. not the state itself. the iranian foreign minister spoke about the case on state tv. calling the alleged link between al qaeda and iran the most hilarious thing he had heard in his 64 years. the state department here in the u.s. is disputing a report by some house republicans about the attack on the u.s. outpost in benghazi. as we reported here last night, democrats call it a one-sided political report. the attack killed the u.s. ambassador to libya, chris stevens. the state department official sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen dority. according to the house republican report. former secretary of state hillary clinton personally rejected requests for more security at the benghazi

facility. before leaving office secretary clinton testified she did not see those requests but one house republican tells fox news he stands by the g.o.p.'s report. >> i don't know what her eyes saw, what i do know is that her signature is on some of the denials of those requests. and what we know for certain is that some of these requests did not end with a security folks in the state department. they went higher. up into the management level. >> shepard: state department spokesman is responding and saying it is standard protocol that cables originating from the state department in washington go out under the authority of the current secretary of state. with their signature, ie their name typed at the bottom. in this way secretary clinton signed hundreds of thousands of cables during her tenure as secretary. the security cables related to benghazi did not come to her attention. these cables were reviewed at the assistant secretary level. the death toll keeps climbing after an enormous

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>> shepard: the trial of the woman who shot and stabbed her ex-boyfriend is is a hot ticket. so hot that the jodi arias trial now has ticket school%. one scalpers. one woman sold her seat for 200 bucks. she was from out of town. this was the only time she could come. i can come every day if i wanted to. >> shepard: the court does not allow saving spots in line. so order the other woman to return the money. there is no law against scamming court seats scalping court seats. spring cold snap bringing more rain to a saturated section to the heartland where the flooding has already proven deadly. several states across the midwest expected to remain under warnings through throught this week with other rivers and waterways record levels. some of the hardest areas

illinois. blame the rain and flooding for at least four test over the past week. the high water has drenched several counties, forcing hundreds of families from their homes. let's get right to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the weather center. it looks awful, rick. >> it does. target illinois river that obviously then feeds down into the mississippi river. and that will continue to cause problems for the next number of weeks. you go in towards the plains, shep, we have incredible drought going on. come in towards the midwest and we have seen so much rain, the majority of it last week in one storm where we saw 5 to 7 inches of rain. now the last day or so we have seen about another inch to two of rain fall and a lot of these rivers here at these record levels here at the major flood stage i should say, this especially along the illinois river seeing some more rain. there is one little bit of good news. we don't have any real significant moisture coming to this area for at least the next 5 to 7 days. that's good news. unfortunately all this moisture has to go somewhere. all of this mississippi river watershed except for

the missouri river except for the eastern side of it there those waters running high and continue to see these waters rise across the mississippi river through the weekend and begin to decrease a little bit. fortunately nothing like we saw two years ago where we saw all of that record breaking flooding. >> folks in fargo are bracing for what could be the red river's fourth major flood in just five years. dozens of natural gas troops are on hand helping the residents prepare for the worse. workers emergency levies and sandbags to neighborhoods. there is good news. the national weather service scaled back. river. that should cut way down on the number of sandbags that people need to stack from nearly 2 million to just 400,000. >> we have new video coming in from louisiana. it's after a confirmed tornado ripped through the new orleans suburb of kenner. officials say the twister was 50 yards wide and packed 90 mile-per-hour winds. so not very strong but bad enough if it hits your place. downed trees and power lines have left tens of

thousands of homes and businesses in the dark tonight. so far no report of anybody hurt. the civil war in syria has already killed more than 70,000 people. its forced more than a million others to evacuate their homes. and now it's demolished a piece of history. take a look what's left of a famous mosque in northern syria. amid the fighting of syrian government and armed rebels. missing the tower to which the call for prayer issues. this particular one had been standing since the 119 century. one archaeologist compares it to blowing up the taj mahal. each side blames the other for this unthinkable destruction. at least 100 people are dead and more than 1,000 are hurt as building topples to the ground and tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. bangladesh, the eight story structure housing several garment factories suddenly collapsed this morning on the outskirts of the capital city of daca.

rescuers searched for hundreds of missing people. some workers were hesitant to go to the factory today after the building divnd such severe cracks it made the local news. bangladesh is known for lax construction standards. chile. a massive forest fire tore through a port city destroying dozens of homes and charring 150 acres. plumes of smoke poured from villages. hundreds of families had to evacuate. no word on the cause. colombia. authorities say they have seized some six tons of pot and arrested six people in three separate drug busts in the capital city. police report hauling in more than 200,000 pounds of marijuana so far this year. mexico. a robot may have helped scientists discover ancient tombs underneath some aztec ruins north and east of mexico city. archaeologists originally sent the device into the underground tunnels to see if people could enter them safely. the robot's camera

three chambers below a temple at the site. which is more than 2,000 years old and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> shepard: there was a time right after the attacks of 9/11 when almost nine of 10 americans approved of the job george w. bush did as president. there was also a time when only a fourth of americans approved. now more than four years after leaving office, the polls are moving again. just hours ahead of the dedication of the presidential library and museum. and that's next. ♪ hey everybody, hi mom... streaming live with a tour of my new place...

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>> shepard: new numbers so he the pluck's view of george w. bush is improving according to the new fox

news poll. 49% of voters say they have a favorable view of the former president. that's compared to just 38% back in february of 2010. fewer people also say they had unfavorable view of president bush. those numbers on the eve of the official dedication of the george w. bush presidential library and museum. it's located on the campus of southern methodist university in dallas. and just in, president obama and first lady michelle obama have just landed in dallas. live pictures here. they are scheduled to attend that dedication ceremony tomorrow with the former president. later in the day the president and first lady will travel to waco to attend a memorial service for the victims of last fertilizer explosion. carl cameron with more. hey, carl. >> hi, shep. well tonight, in fact, it's a fundraiser for the democratic national committee that the president will be attending. but tomorrow it will not only be barack obama and george w. bush convening on dallas and the campus of smu. dignitaries from around the country and indeed from around the world coming. built over the course of

almost the last four years, the bush library and museum is set on 25 acres at smu. and it cost almost $250 million to build all in private donations over the course of the last few years. there is inside a whole series of exhibits to the george w. bush two term administration, including the famous bull horn that he spoke from on those few days after the 9/11 attacks from ground zero in new york. in addition, there is the twisted steel from the twin towers left in the rubble after that attack that defined his presidency. there will be a big dedication tomorrow. the museum itself actually has some interactive opportunities for visitors to take part in and share in the decisions that george bush made for instance to invade iraq or not or to send federal troops to new orleans in the wake of hurricane katrina or not. on stage tomorrow in addition to president obama and first lady michelle george w. bush and his wife laura. there is a big part of the exhibit to her time and particularly international travel and we will see i didn't meany carter and his wife george h.w. bush the

first and his wife barbara as well as bill clinton and hillary clinton. >> shepard: look forward to it southern methodist is the alma matter for the first lady laura bush. she earned bachelor of science degree education in 196. the campus features the laura bush promenade. walkway garden dedicated to the first lady after the first president donated $250,000 in honor of his lovely wife. the former cia director david petraeus has a new job. the city university of new york reports he will be a visiting professor of public policy in manhattan starting in august. calls this a unique opportunity for students. professor petraeus will share his extraordinary insight on international security and intelligence and nation building. general petraeus resigned as cia director last year after he admitted he did have an affair with his biographer paula broadwell. a major gang bust inside one of america's jails. cops have charged 25

people, including corrections officers and inmates in connection with a scandal involving sex and drugs and a whole lot of money at baltimore city detention center. now, the police say it all started when an inmate took control of a driven gang still after 2009 incarceration to await trial in attempted murder charges. he takes over the gang much the guy reportedly fathers five children with four prison guards. and purchased several cars from behind bars. authorities also accuse the officers and the inmates involved in the smuggling drugs and cell phones right into jail suspects face racketeering, money lawn dreg and drug charges. big talk sports world after one player chomps down on his opponent's arm. and now he is paying the price for punishment for biting. that's next. copd makes it hard to breathe...

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and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. >> shepard: a soccer in england will miss 10 games liverpool team because he bit opponent's arm during a big premier league match. the players get tangled up here and the guy in the red opens wide and goes in biting him right on the arm. he has until friday to appeal this ban. not the first time either. back in 2010 officials banned him seven games from biting a player's collar bone can bell nickname. mormon bishop with a

samurai sword. also martial arts instructor in salt lake city. a man attacked a woman outside his home so he grabbed the nearest weapon in sight his samurai. >> he was coming through the fence here, that's where i drew down on him and just came here like this and told him to get down on the ground. accept shep the attacker ran away. seemed the suspect dropped chapstick at the scene so the bishops yelled out i have got your d.n.a. so you are done. sure enough the suspect turned him in to the cops. number five blackberry announcing skype video chatting to new line of phones. number 4. officials say the only survivor the avalanche that killed five snowboarders in colorado last weekend was buried for hours with just one arm above the surface. number three, the father of the boston bombing suspect says he will come to the united states with the boy's mother in the coming days. sources tell fox news the explosives used in that bombing show similar traits to low grade fireworks. and number one, new

forensic analysis also shows that the boston bombs most likely used components from remote controlled toy cars for detective ton nation. that's "the fox report's" top five. and on this day in 1945, at the height of world war ii. president harry truman first learned that the united states had been developing an aton mick bomb. it had been going on for years. the manhattan project started in 1939 under president frark lynn roosevelt. it was so secret that fdr never told vice president truman about it. when roosevelt died truman was sworn in. soon after the secretary of war told him scientists were building a weapon of mass destruction at a lab in mexico. months later the u.s. dropped two atomic bombs on japan triggering its surrender. truman remains the only world leader to use such a device against an enemy. he got the briefing on the bomb 69 years ago today. and now you know the news for this wednesday, april the 24th, 2013.

i'm shepard smith. thanks for checking in tonight. hope you will be back with us tomorrow for fox report. same time, same place. and mr. o'reilly will be coming immediately thereafter. if he chooses and is in the mood. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. [explosions] [sirens] >> we have multiple people down here. >> bill: did the two bombers have financing to conduct their murder campaign? we have a factor investigation and tell you why some people don't even want to look into that question. >> i think we really have to consider, given the fact so many people hate us, that we're going to have to cut off muslim students from coming to this country. >> bill: uber liberal bob beckel calling for a stop in muslim and chinese students from coming to the u.s.a. wow. beckel will be here. also tonight, dennis miller with some comments on the bomber brothers and what exactly did these terrorists put on the net? caution, you are about to